Netflix film chief Scott Stuber has assembled a critically acclaimed dream team for the streaming service's adaptation of the 2014 Josh Malerman novel BIRD BOX . Eric Heisserer, who has gone from working on FINAL DESTINATION 5 , the THING "premake" , 2010's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET , and LIGHTS OUT to being the Oscar nominated writer of ARRIVAL , is handling...

Back in February Universal announced that MAMA director Andy Muschietti would be directing the feature adaptation of BIRD BOX, with seasoned genre pros Scott Stuber, Chris Morgan and Barbara Muschietti set to produce, and now it looks like the adaptation might’ve snagged a writer, with Eric Heisserer in talks to adapt the manuscript for the big screen.
According to The...

Andres Muschietti, who directed the surprise horror hit MAMA , is in negotiations to helm the adaptation of the upcoming novel BIRD BOX for Universal, according to Heat Vision. BIRD BOX is an apocalyptic thriller written by Josh Malerman, frontman for the rock group The High Strung, and is set to be published in 2014 by Ecco, a HarperCollins imprint, who bought the North American rights...